Motivational Quotes

Children

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

- Chase, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

10.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

11.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

12.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

13.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

14.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

15.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

16.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

18.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

19.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

20.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

21.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

22.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

23.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

24.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

25.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

27.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

28.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

29.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

30.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

31.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

32.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

34.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

35.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

36.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

38.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

39.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

40.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

41.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

42.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

43.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

44.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

45.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

46.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

48.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

49.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray